Betrayed by her own pack and the mate who swore to protect her, Elara is handed over as a blood-price bride to Alpha King Corvin a man locked in a death-sleep for a decade after a rival pack's curse. She expects a corpse. She gets a wolf that recognizes her scent the moment she's left alone in his chamber, and claims her before she can run. What Elara doesn't know: Corvin has been awake in his mind for years, trapped behind glassy eyes, silently tracking the traitor inside his own court who cursed him. Her arrival and her blood is the first crack in his prison. When enemies frame Elara for an attack on the pack she despises, only Corvin's sudden, impossible recovery can save her from execution. But the same curse that held him now feeds on her instead, and the healers agree on only one cure: she must carry his heir before the next full moon, or the curse claims her life in his place.
